 We were back at CNS this week after a rain-out last week. We didn’t
have a lot to do on the car this week since we had an off week last week
so, we decided we would set up a second set of shocks for a more
extreme / out of the box setup. We kept our previous week’s setup on
the other set so we could go back to it quickly if this new setup just
wouldn’t work. We went into the first practice and I was amazed at how
good the setup was. The car rotated in the middle of the corner than it
has since before the Legends tire change. I didn’t realize how much I
was fighting the car to keep it down in the corner until we tried this
setup this week. The car would almost turn itself in the middle of the
corner. This will be a setup that we stick with for a few weeks and see
if we can tune it in to be even better.
We were fifth
fastest in practice and hadn’t really figured out the setup yet so it
was pretty encouraging. We started in the back of our heat race though
so it was going to be an interesting race. The car would turn so well, I
was able to get through traffic and finished 4th out of 11. We were
also turning the third fastest times in the race. A car was
disqualified in tech so we actually got moved up to a third place
finish. This turned out to be really good since they invert the first
three rows. We ended up starting the main on the pole. It was a fast
race from the start and we ran in fifth place for the first half of the
race. The car started to go loose as the race went on and we dropped
back to sixth. This was interesting because the new tires have always
gone tight as the race goes on but this new set up ended up going the
other way. This was good news though because that is more how the old
tires worked. We ran most of the rest of the race in sixth place until
two cars in front spun coming out of turn 2. They got going right away
so no yellow flag was thrown but we were able to move up the 4th in the
process. This is where we finished and it was our best finish to date
at CNS. Pretty good day.
Erick Anderson and Jason
Brenner, friends from high school, also came out to hang out with us at
the races this week and it was great to see them. It was nice to get a
good finish while they were here.
We are off this weekend and will be back at CNS on 7/30. Hopefully we will see you at the track soon. |